Luke 4:25

But I tell you truly, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine all over the land;

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

In Context

24Then He said, “Assuredly I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

26but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a widow woman.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by race, and she was asking Him to cast the demon out from her daughter.

Romans 9:15For He says to Moses, “ I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”

Ephesians 1:9having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

James 5:17Elijah was a man of similar nature to us, and with a prayer, he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months.

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:15-31

Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth; Christ Driven from Nazareth. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he… Read the whole commentary →

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